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Our Strange Sky: Canadians Launch a Lego Man Into Space, Films it All. Awesome Journey, Eh?

They claim to have more video on how they did it and extended footage in the works. We’ll keep an eye on their Facebook page for these bits.
Official site http://www.facebook.com/legomaninspace

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Our Strange Sky: Astronaut Ron Garan Shares the Moon

via +Ron Garan

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Our Strange Sky: Aurora from Atlantis

Astronaut Mike Fossum caught a beautiful photo of Aurora on July 27, 2011 from Space Shuttle Atlatnis last mission.
via @astro_aggie

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Our Strange Sky: The Pileus Iridescent Cloud of Ethiopia

Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The above image was taken just after the picturesque sight was noticed by chance by a photographer in Ethiopia.

via APOD

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Our Strange Sky: The Lightning Skies of Huntsville or The Gods Must be Showy

8/3/11 Lightning in Northeast Huntsville

In the early days of August, Huntsville was witness to a fantastic lightning show. We attempted to take video but our phone is on its last legs after an unfortunate incident regarding a washing machine. It took some small doing but we found others who captured the phenomenon(in photograph and on video) and shared with the world at large.

Below the jump is a pilot’s video(markopenguin) of the skies filled with lightning attacks.

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Our Strange Sky: And in the Sky, a Crown of Clouds and Light

雷雲

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Our Strange Sky: NASA’s Bird’s Eye View of Hurricane Irene

We’ve had our eyes to the skies even though our blog has been silent. Here we have @Astro_Ron‘s tweeted photo of Irene from the ISS. Below the jump, NASA video of Irene from space and a live blog of her passing.

@Astro_Ron Views Irene on August 27, 2011

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Our Strange Sky: The Plains Milky Way of South Dakota

Notes on experiencing this video to the fullest:

1) Wait until the dark of night.
2) Find the darkest corner of your house/apartment/cave hole.
3) Set the video to fullscreen
4) Enjoy

We love what Randy Halverson sees in Our Strange Sky.

During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota, when I had the time, and the weather cooperated.

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This was all shot at night. If you see stars and it looks like daylight, it is actually moon light. 20+ second exposures make it look like daylight.

Official Site: http://dakotalapse.com/

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Our Strange Sky: Lightning and a Lunar Eclipse from the Edge of the Planet of Goats

Thunderstorms almost spoiled this view of the spectacular June 15 total lunar eclipse. Instead, storm clouds parted for 10 minutes during the total eclipse phase and lightning bolts contributed to the dramatic sky. Captured with a 30 second exposure the scene also inspired what, in the 16 year history of Astronomy Picture of the Day, the editor considers may be the best title yet for a picture (title credit to Chris K.). Of course, the lightning reference clearly makes sense, and the shadow play of the dark lunar eclipse was widely viewed across planet Earth in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The picture itself, however, was shot from the Greek island of Ikaria at Pezi. That area is known as “the planet of the goats” because of the rough terrain and strange looking rocks.

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Thank You, Internet, For this Strange Bit of Sky

We don’t know where this came from or who made it but we like where it’s going.

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